Caregivers: the potential infection resources for the sustaining epidemic of hand, foot, and mouth disease/herpangina in Guangdong, China?

Table 6 Multi-variable analyses of predictors for HFMD/HA suffering in children

Predictor	Adjusted OR	95% CI	P-Value
Children’s family month income (¥)			< 0.001^*
< 5000	1	reference
5000~	0.77	0.37–1.62	0.492
10,000~	5.43	2.61–11.32	< 0.001^*
30,000~	16.38	5.59–47.99	< 0.001^*
≥ 50,000	1.39	0.34–5.63	0.643
Having extra-curricular class
No	1	reference
Yes	0.40	0.17–0.95	0.039^*
Caregivers’ education			0.003^*
Primary school and below	1	reference
Junior high school	0.55	0.19–1.59	0.270
Senior high school	0.71	0.25–1.98	0.512
College degree	0.25	0.09–0.74	0.012^*
University degree	0.21	0.07–0.64	0.006^*
Master degree or above	0.10	0.01–0.76	0.026^*
Washing hands before feeding children			0.010^*
Almost always	0.20	0.06–0.70	0.011^*
Sometimes	0.15	0.05–0.52	0.003^*
Never	1	reference
The way to cool food
Natural cooling	1	reference
Cooling by blowing with mouth	1.85	1.11–3.08	0.018^*
Feeding the children with the caregiver’s own tableware			0.006^*
Almost always	2.19	1.07–4.45	0.031^*
Sometimes	0.74	0.42–1.29	0.288
Never	1	reference
Disinfecting toys
No	1	reference
Yes	0.12	0.07–0.21	< 0.001^*
Number of times a week to take children out			< 0.001^*
0	1	reference
1	1.71	0.89–3.29	0.266
2	3.87	1.67–8.99	0.005^*
3	3.85	1.34–11.08	0.027^*
≥ 4	14.34	6.97–29.49	< 0.001^*
Average time of outdoor activities for children every day (hour)			0.030^*
< 1	1	reference
1	1.24	0.65–2.37	0.523
2–3	1.43	0.68–3.01	0.349
≥ 4	5.74	1.78–18.49	0.003^*

^*Significance difference between two groups where the P-value is less than 0.05

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